A religious experience is proof that God exists. Do you.
Religious experience is a good pointer to the existence of God! Discuss (40) Critically evaluate the view that religious experience is the best basis for belief in God. (40) “Although it is reasonable to believe in God on the basis of a religious experience you yourself have had, it is wrong to believe on the basis of other peoples’ reports.”.
This extract is a transcript of a radio debate between F.C. Copleston (Catholic priest and religious believer) and Bertrand Russell (philosopher and non-believer), broadcast in 1948 on the BBC. In the first section, the Argument from Contingency, Copleston argues that God must exist because the universe requires a Necessary Being to explain it, but Russell argues that the universe is a brute.
Opponents of the Religious Experience Argument claim that religious experiences involve imagination rather than perception, and point out that there is always the possibility of fabricating artificial experiences of God, or that the experiences may not actually be religious at all but are merely interpreted that way by religious people (this would go some way towards explaining why it seems.
Argument from Religious Experience. The Argument from Religious Experience The argument from religious experience is the argument that personal religious experiences can prove God’s existence to those that have them. One can only perceive that which exists, and so God must exist because there are those that have experienced him.
The argument from religious experience is an argument for the existence of God.It holds that the best explanation for religious experiences is that they constitute genuine experience or perception of a divine reality. Various reasons have been offered for and against accepting this contention. Contemporary defenders of the argument are Alister Hardy and Dinesh D'Souza.
William Wainwright also argues that we can only reject religious visions if we can prove the non-existence of God, there are inconsistencies in experiences or there is evidence of a natural origin known to cause false beliefs and delusions. However, we haven't proved that God does not exist, there are some remarkable similarities in religious visions and there are many visions reported by.
Religious topics abound on Listverse and they are frequently the most commented upon. It has been some time since the last one so it seems like the time is ripe for another - and this one is a great one for discussion. Here we present five arguments in favor of the existence of God, and the counterargument for it. Feel free to comment on the veracity (or your opinion of) each but remember to.